from sailfish for Museum specimens. I got two more today from Mr. Adams* 
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sailfish, along with several external copepod parasites^ « 
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Jack Barron, seaman first class assigned 
went out dredging in Chatham Bay and brought hack several 
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in spite of the rough going and coral heads that made dredging here a difficult 
operation. All told, in about four half days of fishing, l6 sailfish were 
taken. A list of those taken by the President and other members of his party 
compiled by Captain Callaghan accounts for six of them. 
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9* 6" 
9* 7" 
10* 1-1/2" (he claims 2") 
9* 7-1/2" 
9* 7“ 
Weight in lbs. 
100 
105 
120 
130 
120 - 1/2 
99 
The heaviest fish taken on regulation tackle during the entire cruise 
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was a 235-lb. shark landed by the Pre si deni^af t er a one-hour-and- thirty-six- 
minute tug of war. A party from the HoDaugal harpooned a giant manta which, 
on a heavy* duty boat scales, registered I6U5 lbs. It measured 15 feAt in 
width and 9 feet in length, exclusive of a 4-foot tail 
About 12:30 p.$. we got under way for Balboa, 540 miles to the 
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Moored alongside the pier at a quarter past two. The president 
was kept busy every minute of this day receiving the representatives of the 
national press associations and local reporters and attending to his official 
mail. During the afternoon there was a tea party in honor of the President of 
